In addition we had a whole bunch of lightning and thunder. That's pretty rare, and any time you get that with a winter storm it indicates just how intense the storm is.

I couldn't speak. I was pretty much in shock. It was hard to believe that I was going to Turin. It still is.

I think we're ahead of schedule compared to last year at this time. We look pretty sharp. We just don't know yet how they'll play when they have to strap it up and push another team around.

Back at that time, we played the songs pretty much the way we heard them on the records. We streamlined them somewhat. We even had band uniforms that we wore and that was one of the first things I had to do. I went out to the department store and purchased black slacks and a black vest and a green corduroy blazer. That was sort of our official uniform at the time and we used that for a while.

I thought it was time for him to learn that the meat he eats doesn't originate at Safeway.

People are coming here now to have a good time. It's a destination location. It's the cuisine, it's the entertainment, it's the people-watching, it's the sharing of celebrity, and living vicariously through some of those folk.